Doubt without, the two actions of greatest importance in
getting to the bottom of things are  --   whining and complaining,
commonly confused, but distinct entities;
whining is what you do about your own life;
complaining is what you do about other people’s lives.
Without the constant, balanced exercise of the two,
no change is possible in a person’s consciousness and understanding;
the reasons for this are clear:
one: the world is full of, and indeed largely run by people who have
no idea of what is going on, or what they are doing,
and in far too many instances are simply morons,
often well intentioned, but idiots all the same, which brings us to number two:
their foolishness wrecks havoc on your life, or more importantly --  your state of mind.

The first instance --  if not complained about by insightful people –
will never get corrected, and unenlightened people will never become aware of
their pathetic, even dangerous mental condition,
and in the second case, if you do not whine about the unjustified, ill fated occurrences that befall your life, you can too easily become accustomed thereto, and eventually overlook them, which of course will do nothing to cure them,
(plus it is simply not right that a person should suffer in silence,
particularly when the distress is caused by other people, who should be made to face up to the damage they do).

Take a lesson: all of man’s spiritual, cultural and psychological heroes have been aggressive whiners and complainers,
never hesitating to point the finger of complaint toward any who deserved it,
be they king or kitchen drudge;
nor were they ever shy in whining over the poor treatment they received
as thanks for their efforts;
to believe that you can do less is a sad and costly slip.
 

To most men and women, whining and complaining seem unnatural,
and commonly is strenuous and persistent struggle required to make the two
a regular part of your daily life --
but for the few determined to cut through the many mental illusions which permeate ordinary men’s lives, and cause them to see life and themselves in a distorted,
and fallacious light,
the rewards are incomparable.
 

By the by: even those who live a somewhat solitary life are at no disadvantage,
for even if you have no ready access to other people to whom to voice your
whines and complaints,
they both can be done quite adequately just in your own mind,
(it will help to keep up with the news and perhaps listen to talk radio
so as to always have a fresh supply of fodder for your work).
 
 

The primary reason that the rest of the world never catches on to what is really
going on is because of their laxity in the area of whining and complaining;
yes, it is true that they do some, (well, quite a bit in fact),
but it is not consistent and well thought out,
as it is when done by those struggling to step from the dark into the light.
Whining and complaining when done by a person with the goal of freeing their consciousness from the normal, dull level at which mankind in general operates,
is a different breed of captious cat;
those with the nascent keen eye for extraordinary insight can effortlessly spot
the everywhere presence of hypocrisy, duplicity, stupidity and irony,
and in a singular fashion have the innate ability to see where the specific faults lie,
and thus make constructive complaints;
and just as uniquely is their capacity to see  –  quite objectively  –
how the uncorrected foolishness of others has a constant negative impact on
their own lives and mental peace, and are not hesitant to  –  in a profitable manner  --  whine thereabout.
 

No matter your intelligence, sophistication, or sincerity in wanting to
expand your consciousness and personal understanding of life and yourself,
if you do not maintain the needed discipline of consistent, well founded
whining and complaining your project is doomed to fail.
 
 

With as much frequency as life has man condemn lying,
does it have him promote honesty,
and the entirety of humanity would agree with the statement:
“A man can make no improvement to himself
without being completely honest with himself” –
to any normal mind, the idea is prima facie self evident;
you cannot correct some flaw in yourself or your thinking if you will not be honest enough to admit you have such --
so that you can then study it, and find the way best to rectify it:
this could not be more obvious  --   but;
not a dozen people out of the world’s present six billion would grasp the fullness of what is meant by, honesty
(not from the perspective daily here noted).
 

All sane people believe they have some psychological/spiritual problem(s)
which keeps them from being completely happy and satisfied with themselves,
and with life;
one person says they have an unshakable anger toward their father,
another person says they suffer from a lifelong feeling of fear,
but whatever the specifics, humans believe that to overcome and become free of these debilitating flaws they must first be brutally honest about them, that is:
they must (as painful as it may be) openly confess them;
all professional counseling, both secular and temporal is based thereon,
as is private advice between friends and family:
“You must be honest with yourself and admit that you hate your father;
that you are afraid of most everything in life  --   and move on from there
to figure out why you have come to have these flaws;
only then can you expect any success in correcting them.”
 
 

Life has all men believing they should be other than they are,
and of particular consequence concerns their thinking,
for a person can alter what-they-are to some visible extent by
losing fat, gaining muscle, coloring their hair, or cosmetic surgery,
but changing what naturally occurs in your mind is another matter not so
directly accessible.
Life makes everyone think they should be other than they are --  internally;
then makes most people make some effort to change;
ordinarily, they do not,
but life makes men keep trying, and ignoring their failure to do so.
This is (from the view here) how it is   --   but,
it could be otherwise for any who hear something strangely attractive,
if not inexplicably familiar in these daily writings  --   if
they can find for themselves
what the honesty about themselves is
that is required to ever cull yourself from the unthinking herd.

The honesty about yourself is not:
“I hate my father.”  “I am so shy it ruins my life.”  “I am too suspicious.”
“I am too gullible.”  “I have a terrible temper.”
“I am asleep; living in a dream; an idiot in the dark without a clue to what is going on” –
nothing of this nature is the honesty about yourself that will open your mind to
the normally unnoticed reality of what goes on all around and all in you
moment by moment throughout your life, and which will free you from
the frustrations and boredom inherent in man’s routine mentation.
 

What this honesty is will not be said here today;
you take it from here on the basis that none of what your mind wants to say is: honesty-about-yourself  IS so;
saying/thinking: “I will be honest with myself:
I am an overbearing, pretentious blowhard” or anything of the like is not it –
--  nothing of the sort is it.
This kind of honesty is a whole step removed from the honesty about yourself
being hinted at here;
it is an honesty about yourself that is literally past that sort of confession.

Consider; if admitting that you have this or that particular personality flaw,
and then trying to figure out why you picked it up,
so that you can then work on correcting it
is not the honesty being referred to, then ask yourself  --   what is?
What other honesty about me could be lurking around the edges of
the one(s) I have already confessed to?

Look at it: here you are: a sincere, intelligent person,
being brutally honest about yourself, yet being told that that kind of so-called honesty will accomplish nothing (the proof everywhere),
and hearing that there is another overlooked, but blatantly obvious
honesty about you --  and everyone else -- 
right there beneath the apparent one(s) that so readily spring to mind,
and that all the other meaningless, honesties sit on this one --
what simple something could be being pointed to amidst all this?

It is a certain honesty about yourself that destroys all the delusions about
man and yourself;
it is nothing complex or metaphysical  --   it is simple  –  oh so very, very simple,
but oh so extremely, extremely offensive to man’s natural mind (the one that knows everything).